1879.] Frogs from the neighbourhood of Ellore and Dumagudem. 115 
and a double rather broad V-shaped mark, with the angle directed forward, 
on the vertical and occipitals. 
25. SIMOTES RUSSELLI. One young specimen only. 
26. ABLABES HUMBERTI, var. (P. A.S.B., 1871, p. 174). Several 
specimens were obtained, in the neighbourhood of Ellore, of a small snake, 
only differing from South Indian specimens of 4. hwmberti, in the number 
of ventral shields. To this variation I called attention in the short paper 
above indicated. The following is a description of the fresh colouration 
in the snake from Hllore. 
Back pale coppery, sides lilac grey, lower parts very pale apple green ; 
a series of small black dots along the middle of the back, at rather irregu- 
lar intervals, from 2 to 5 scales apart, and two other lateral rows, one on 
each side of the ventral scales, consisting of a black dot on the side of 
each scale. An imperfect very narrow black streak runs down each side of 
the back. Head above mostly black, with a narrow yellow collar across the 
neck 7 scales behind the occipitals ; this collar becomes broader at the sides. 
There is a patch of duskier yellow behind each occipital, the two patches 
separated by a central black line ; from each patch a white band leads 
down to the upper labials. A white band runs along the upper labials and 
rostral, extending all round the upper jaw, and another runs from the rostral 
to each superciliary shield. Loreal region black. Hach of the lower labials 
and chin shields with a white patch, bordered by black, anterior ventral 
shields with partial dusky margins, The specimen described was 10°5 inches 
long, the tail being 1:9. Ventrals 211, anal bifid, subcaudals in 56 pairs. 
In another specimen 13} inches long there were 209 ventrals. As was point- 
ed out in the note already quoted, there were only 155 ventrals in a speci- 
men from Malabar, 175 in one noticed in Giinther’s Reptiles of British 
India, p. 228, and no less than 240 in a Calcutta example. So great a 
variation in the number of ventral shields might indicate that several species 
are included, but there appeared no other constant difference in the speci- 
mens, and I may add that Dr. Stoliczka, who also examined them, agreed 
with me in classing all as varieties of one species. 
27. ZAMENIS FASCIOLATUS. A young specimen only, but one of the 
fiercest snakes I ever captured. 
28. 'TROPIDONOTUS STOLATUS. 
29. CERBERUS RHYNCHOPS, abundant in the salt water inlets and 
estuaries near Coconada, living in holes in the mud between tidemarks. A 
very gentle snake, not biting when handled. 
30. Dripsas rrigonata. The colouration varies in this snake. The 
specimen obtained had the head markings different from those described by 
Giinther and on the back were irregular transverse whitish bands with 
